Family Support Assistant - Bolton, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom - Bolton at Home Limited

Bolton at Home Limited Bolton, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

3 days ago

Part time

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Permanent
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The BRIDGES Family Support Team supports disabled children and their families, we have a permanent Family Support Assistant positions available for 20 hours per week.

As a Family Support Assistant, you will be a vital part of the team providing practical and personal support to disabled children.

You will be committed to helping families meet the needs of the young people in their care and, you must be willing to undertake training.

Bridges Family Support Team is unique It's a fabulous team with outstanding outcomes for disabled children, young people, and their families.

You will be operating within the wider Short Break Care team meeting the assessed need of disabled children and their families across Bolton.

This is a team with a strong ethos of person-centred planning responding to individual needs of each child.

You will be a highly motived individual, comfortable working within a team or by yourself, caring for disabled children and young people.

You will be committed and passionate about providing high quality, person centred practical, emotional and social support to the children in your care.

You won't be expected to know everything, but you must want to work alongside our children and families and be willing to learn from them, our team members and by undertaking formal training.

You will care about what you do and want to provide the highest quality care and experience you can.

This includes some weekend work and both early morning and late evening shifts.

We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes.

In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

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Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

That means we will recognise your continuous or 'unbroken' service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits.

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